We attended the Broadhurst Ward Christmas party on Saturday, 15 January. We arrived at the scheduled 11:30 am start time. Sister Rands helped in the kitchen. Elder Rands helped braai the meat. His job was to keep the flies off the meat using a tree branch.
The dinner was chicken, beef, sausage, several kinds of salads, pap (corn meal) with stew on top, and cake. Botswanans like their meat.
The party actually got going at two o'clock when the meat was finished cooking and food prepared.
There were games outside in the parking lot. Remember it is summer in Botswana and warm (hot). They divided everyone into seven groups for the games. Some of the games were three-legged race, soccer goal toss, card race where two people hold a card between them with their teeth and run to the finish line, water balloon toss, water relay, straw drink race (assemble ten straws end to end and suck up a bottle of juice), blanket turn (team stands on blanket and turns it over without stepping off the blanket), lollipop walk, treasure hunt, etc. Everyone, young and old, had a great time playing the games. About 175 people came.
The games lasted until after four o'clock and then it was time to eat. We had to leave at four o'clock to give a keyboard lesson. When we came back at 5:30 pm the food was all gone so we missed the dinner. We thought the party would be over long before we had to leave for the keyboard lesson.
After dinner there was a skit, singing of Christmas carols, and Santa (Elder Wagner) came. Santa gave candy to the children. We left the party at 6:30 pm and there was still more to come. It was an all-day event.
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